Fonseca (surname)

Fonseca

Language(s)	Romance
Origin
Meaning	dry well

Fonseca is a common Portuguese and Galician surname, while the variation Fonseka is common in Sri Lanka after Portuguese presence. A habitational name from any of several places named for a spring that dried up during the summer months, it comes from Latin fōns siccus, meaning "dry well". The name is also common among Sephardic Jews.

People

• Adriana Fonseca, Mexican actress
• Allyson Fonseca, Australian TV journalist
• Alonso III Fonseca (1475-1534), Galician archbishop and politician
• Andrea Fonseka, winner of Miss Malaysia Universe 2004, and actor, television presenter and model
• Angelo da Fonseca (1902-1967), Goan Catholic artist
• Bruno Fonseca (1958-1994), United States artist
• Carlos Fonseca Amador, Nicaraguan founder of the Sandinistas
• Carlos Fonseca (boxer), Brazilian boxer
• Carolyn De Fonseca, United States actress
• Celso Fonseca, Brazilian Samba, Bossa Nova and MPB guitarist and vocalist
• Daniel Fonseca, Uruguayan football (soccer) player
• Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican football (soccer) player
• David Fonseca, Portuguese singer
• Deodoro da Fonseca, first President of the Republic of Brazil
• Duduka da Fonseca, Brazilian jazz drummer and band leader
• Édgar Fonseca, Colombian road cyclist
• Edison Fonseca, Colombian football (soccer) player
• Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel (1751-1799) Italian poet and revolutionary
• Francisco Fonseca, Mexican football (soccer) player
• Fumilay Fonseca, São Toméan race walker
• Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan film actor and politician.
• Gonzalo Fonseca, Uruguayan sculptor
• Graciano Fonseca, Colombian road cyclist
• Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca, President of Brazil
• Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605-1693), rabbi, scholar, kabbalist and writer
• Isabel Fonseca, American writer
• J. P. de Fonseka, Sri Lankan essayist
• Juan Fernando Fonseca (born 1979), Colombian singer better known under his stagename Fonseca
• Lew Fonseca, American baseball player
• Luis Fonseca, a United States Navy Hospital Corpsman and veteran of the Iraq War
• Luis Fonseca (athlete), Venezuelan long-distance runner
• Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
• Malini Fonseka, Sri Lankan film actress
• Mervyn Fonseka, Sri Lankan lawyer
• Paulo Fonseca, Portuguese football manager
• Peter Fonseca, Canadian politician
• Ramón Fonseca Mora (born 1952), Panamanian novelist and co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, subject of the Panama Papers
• Roberto Fonseca, Cuban jazz pianist
• Roberto Fonseca (football manager), Brazilian football manager
• Rolando Fonseca, Costa Rican football (soccer) player
• Sarath Fonseka, Former General and the Commander of Sri Lankan Army, Chief of Defense staff of the Sri Lankan Tri Forces, and later a Sri Lankan presidential candidate
• Susantha de Fonseka, Sri Lankan statesman
• Tiago Cardoso Fonseca, Brazilian footballer
• Todd A. Fonseca, American author of juvenile fiction